Crowdfunding sites democratize the playing field for Asian American documentary filmmakers

In early 2014, identical twin sisters Samantha and Anaïs began appearing in the news and talk shows. Their story was a fascinating one: Korean twin sisters, adopted into two different families. One of them, Samantha Futerman, grew up in the United States; the other, Anaïs Bordier, grew up in France. Through a series of coincidences and the magic of Facebook and YouTube, they were finally able to reunite in person.

In attempting to pay tribute to Chinese culture, filmmaker D.W. Griffith created several Orientalist images that have, unfortunately, stood the test of time. The ghost of Cheng Huan, and all he embodied, still haunts Asian American representation in the media today.

My family’s trauma has always
captivated me, but I’ve always known that it was only one story in a sea of
millions. That sea is what Sheila Miyoshi Jaeger explores in Brothers at War, a detailed and
captivating look at the circumstances, causes, and effects of the Korea War.

Higashino’s latest
novel Salvationof a Saint plays out far more
traditionally than his previous The Devotion of Suspect X, with a
whodunit plot, several possible suspects, alibis, wronged women, and
implausible explanations for the murder.

What Lin seems to have set out to do is create a noir
protagonist of color, and to undermine the seedy depiction of Chinatowns that
has existed in the popular mainstream as being populated by nameless and
faceless Chinese people.

Harden’s
book is remarkable in the way that it charts the growth of Shin, from a child
born to prisoners, to a young, angry student, to a skillful survivor, to a
disaffected adult, and, finally, to an activist.